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Tuesday, 15 October 2013

When confronted with a bag full of delicious colours I wouldn't normally use, I get all excited.

Thats what happened last week when I went into college to teach felt making to two groups of A level students.

We opened the new consignment of wool. Oohh...delicious colours fell out.

I was in paroxyms of delight, they not so thrilled.

I looked at their lovely little faces looking up at me from around the table and it reminded me of this.

After they'd all made their first piece of felt, I showed them how to build up a design using pre-felts.

Mine was all delicate and feminine..like sugared almonds.

(The background is not meant to harmonise so well...my white balance is all to pot but I don't know how to alter it)

It didn't look much before I stitched it. But I like it now.

I repeated the exercise with the second group in the afternoon and made another.

So I still have that one to stitch.

Isn't it funny though, the difference between me and a class of students? (Apart from their lack of wobble when felt rolling) They made their own pieces of pre-felt and cut bits off them and made their main piece, and when they went, they just left the prefelts behind!

So obviously, though they gave a good impression of enjoying the lesson, they had no intention of repeating the exercise.

I think I have come to the end of the line with young students now. I shall retire from the classroom graciously.

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I am an embroiderer from a village in Lancashire. I love to work with silk fibres and velvet, and I especially love machine-embroidery.I acheived a Highly Commended award in the Medals for Excellence for my City & Guilds Part 2 in 1997. My work has been exhibited mainly in galleries in the North of England, and Ireland. This piece is inspired by Byzantine Art and was exhibited at the Bankfield Museum in Halifax in the Embroiderers Guild Exhibition 'The Riches of Stitches' where it received a commendation from the judges.

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